We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

We read because we are essentially alone.